The campaign’s goal is to raise enough money to build a village of 25 two-room houses, plus pay for sanitation and water projects.

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According to the Industrial Fritz Mevs, the two groups already have a license in good standing with the State funds and staff to create the free zone are already available.

For now, engineers are at the stage of study and evaluation of materials for the construction work should start in two to 3 months, meet all required standards, said Fritz Mevs, adding that inhabitants of the area welcome this project which could create up to 31,000 jobs.

But he stressed that only free zone will be clearly insufficient. The objective is to create at least 40 different regions of the country, he said, pledging that the Soros Group and Win are willing to help all local areas or in the diaspora who want to invest in this field.

The prime mover of a free zone is the youth, a is the Haitian population is in urgent need of work, he said, adding that scaffold creation of free zones in all coastal cities with Les Cayes, Port de Paix, Fort-Liberté …..

But ports should also be attached if possible, to all zones, because it takes boats to transport goods in both directions, said the industrialist Fritz Mevs

Over the course of the week, participants will volunteer at the pre-school at Miami’s Haitian Youth & Community Center of Florida. Not only will the Barry students and teachers help out with the kids in the daycare program, they’ll also help the center’s staff sort and pack donations going to Haiti.

But that won’t be their only project. On Wednesday, March 3rd, they plan to join other volunteers in painting the interior and exterior of the Notre Dame D’Haiti Catholic Church in Little Haiti.

source: Miami CBS4

“In discipline, in solidarity, in the patience that we will find the solution to all problems facing us,” said René Préval during a press conference in the police station transformed into headquarters of the government.

Highly criticized by the victims who feel that the Haitian government does not help them, said he understood the “frustration” of its citizens facing delays distributions. “The situation was already difficult before the earthquake, it became even more difficult.

Recalling that a million Haitians were left homeless since the quake and 200,000 tents were needed for housing, he said that ” however, help arrived and as and extent we installed people in shelters. He called for “solidarity in peace (…) not to complicate an already tense situation, already difficult for the people.”

“The EU stands ready to support reconstruction efforts in Haiti through huge financial resources of 400 million euros,” said Jean-Marc Ruiz, Office of the European Commission in Haiti.

Many European NGOs working in Haiti to carry on the humanitarian assistance of the European Union, he said.
“The EU wants to support the Haitian government so he can drive the entire reconstruction effort in Haiti, strengthen government capacity to take things in hand”, for his part said the Ambassador of France Didier Le Bret.

“A substantial package of financial resources of more than 200 million euros for reconstruction efforts in the longer term for the government,” is also planned, said for his part Jean-Marc Ruiz.

Several technical missions from countries of the EU are currently in Haiti working alongside the Haitian government authorities.
European diplomats have also announced a budgetary support for the government to enable it to cope with emergency expenses, pay staff and rehabilitate street, said Mr. Ruiz.

He also welcomed the efforts of individual Europeans, as private, could “contribute massive, sometimes even more than the governments of EU countries.

Former U.S. President will also coordinate the activities of UN agencies, NGOs, donor countries and private donors.

Mr. Ban told Mr. Clinton that those functions required “extraordinary qualities of leadership.

Tonight on the SOS Save OurSelves – Help For Haiti telethon broadcast on BET, Sean Combs aka Diddy called on Wyclef Jean to run for president of Haiti.  Could it that Wyclef is thinking of upgrading his current position in Haiti to president?  hmmm…. Wyclef Jean for president, what qualifies him to be president? what would be do differently?

Ambassador in charge of international adoption Jean-Paul Monchau is “currently in Port-au-Prince for the Haitian authorities to propose a joint mechanism, a bilateral commission, which we can address all out there, records of adoption, “said spokesman Bernard Valero at a news briefing.

This committee is a part designed to “facilitate the processing procedures for which evidence can establish the existence of a court but which can be produced following the earthquake of 12 January, according to a press Valero . And secondly, to “make recommendations for procedures in which no decision had been made Haiti before the earthquake.

The French authorities are in contact with “a little over 900 families,” French and about 950 Haitian children are “involved in adoption procedures,” said the spokesman.

The first priority is to “hasten the arrival in France of Haitian children for whom an adoption order was made by the Haitian justice before the earthquake” or “nearly 400 children,” said Valero. To date, 277 have already joined their French family for adoption and “Other arrivals are planned in the coming days,” he said, adding that each of these departures had been “approved” by the Haitian authorities.

After two weeks in Haiti, many of the 550 rescuers from the Civil Security and the 108 policemen dispatched immediately after the earthquake have returned to France. They will be received Monday by the Prime Minister. Many, like the sergeant-Dubois, confessed having been confronted with scenes and emotions of uncommon violence. “It was like a war film,” recounts Colonel Franck Louvier which has issued from county firefighters Val-d’Oise, coordinated two weeks during the intervention of French physicians in four hospitals Port-au-Prince. Equally shocked, a policeman evokes “a performance comparable to that of cities destroyed by bombing during the Second World War.” Still others describe “a gigantic project in its area”, “terrible injuries”, a “nightmare” …

Committed to 7 am to 20 hours or more each day since their arrival, often inexperienced, some soldiers have sometimes struggled to hide their fatigue. Met January 15 at the foot of the ruins of the Hotel Montana, a master physician had waived such restrain her tears. There was fatigue, frustration and genuine sadness. In the morning, the officer had to admit his impotence. The young woman he had tried for eight hours to save the rubble had died. Yet he had tried everything, still kneeling under tons of concrete to general anesthesia. “Part of his body was crushed by debris,” he explained. She did not survive the extraction. ”

Expert-rescue excavation, Lieutenant Christopher Carrier, assigned to the intervention unit of Nogent-le-Rotrou tempers: “Sure, it’s difficult to spend several days to explore the ruins but could find survivors. Sometimes we even come to say we did not do the job … And then, fortunately, we found the energy to leave each morning and it finally paid off. “In total, the men of the French Civil Security extracted from the rubble 15 of the 134 survivors recovered from the earthquake. On January 28, fifteen days after the earthquake, they have saved such a young girl of 16 who was in a state of extreme dehydration. “At the moment, we were so focused on the need to go fast you did not quite woken up to this miracle,” says Lt. Carrier. Only after quarter of an hour I suddenly was gone chills … ”

A “huge cohesion

Responsible for the field hospital located in the gardens of the Embassy of France, where nearly 140 surgical procedures have been performed since January 17, the physician-Colonel Michel Orcel believes that the “enormous cohesion of his unit is its main asset. “Of course, we all suddenly slack when we lose a patient of 20 years for which we fought for hours using all our means of resuscitation, says he. But whenever one of us falters really, it was immediately supported by the other. “Less categorical, a young lifeguard says that despite years of training, he did not expect to fully “it” – that is to say to the thousands of corpses encountered on his way since his arrival in town. “Whenever we enter the ruins we crossed one or two. In the end it becomes hard. “The awareness of his own limitations has also been a test. “We should take time to rest, it is human. But we also knew that there were dozens of Haitians, perhaps children who were trapped under the ruins, waiting for us and had little time … ”

Faced with an unprecedented wave of open fractures, deep wounds and other ground, the French doctors were often hung up with “beautiful moments of life” occurring here and there. “We have made several deliveries that every time we restore some strength,” smiled the Colonel Louvier. Christophe Carrier testified that he was “stunned” by the ability of people to bounce the reopening of small markets everywhere – while on the roadside, there were still dogs and pigs eating human remains. A military finally welcomed the “great dignity of the Haitians meet their physical pain.”

“Through their training, we at present feel that our staff are pretty well cashed the coup,” says Damien Deluz, the psychologist firefighters Val-de-Marne. For all practical purposes, all the soldiers involved have been imposing a “debrief” of 24 hours in Fort-de-France. An individualized psychological They were also proposed. “For us, the military, it is not obvious to use such support, however, said Chief Warrant Officer Eric Dubois.